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Poster: HankAndLeeStamper Date: Nov 6, 2018 12:24pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Your first show

Tell, I would think -- and I think we're agreeing here --- that listening to American Beauty in 1970 would be a very different experience from listening to it in 1985 (the first time i heard it). Dylan is a perfect example: his classic "protest" songs will always mean "something", but I suspect they meant a little more in 1964-1969 under LBJ than they did under Obama.
In "my" era the early work of U2 would probably fit this mold.
In that sense, maybe I should re-imagine my "this premise isn't true" theory and say that, the music you're listening to when you're 14, that's being made right then and there, is probably the music of your life. There might be a 14-18 year old gang of deadheads out there, but I dont think the dead is the music of their lives, I think music being put out today will play that role for them, in that it puts you into that time and place again (like the image of Peter Frampton puts me back into puberty........). I dunno, maybe I'm wrong for once...

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Poster: William Tell Date: Nov 6, 2018 12:43pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Your first show

Yea, I think we are agreeing (of course! has to be true...go BEARS), but, a bit of nuance to it I suppose...I am in fact suggesting it might have worked to hear Am Beauty in 1985, if you and a bunch of oddballs somehow just "went for it" discovering some long lost cache of albums, spent a summer together when you got drunk, experimented w drugs, met some like minded gals, etc?

For me, in 1975, "we" were rejecting what was on the radio, ignoring it for what we liked, and had discovered thru the 1960s holdovers (brothers, Bay Area oddness, FM radio, etc.). Might be that was a unique time.

So, Stairway to Heaven SHUD be the sound track, but it's not because we turned off the radio if that came on...same thing for Eagles and the like. Where it IS true that I "love the sound now" is all the pop stuff of the 60s I heard when I was 8-12, that stuff does serve to take me back to the 60s, but the mid 70s stuff that was "on at the time" defn did not...

Ugh, "Freebird"..."Radar Love"..."Color my World"..ugh again. Sorry if this offends anyone, but these were so pop in HS and I hated them now and still do...

I guess I am distinguishing the music that you might happen to hear from the music you sought out and obsessed over...

If that makes any sense.

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Poster: billydlions Date: Nov 6, 2018 3:11pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Your first show

What a great thread Vermoontains started. After reading yours and Hank's comments I realized there are two ways to look at his suggestion. "The music of your life" when you're 14 may not be the same thing as the music you liked at that time. Growing up in the 80's there wasn't a lot or protesting going around and everyone seemed happy at the time. The Police, U2, alternative music and to a lesser degree metal was really the music of my youth. Like Hank I liked Priest, Ozzy, Maiden and Metallica and went to plenty of those shows but I always knew the best music was from 1965 to the mid 70s (with the best before I was born!). So I guess when I hear that music it does take me back to those years but it's not what I was listening to at that time (with the exception of the metal and GD).